A mother duck is
separated from her chick
in her search for food.
Encarnación is
a mother caught in a raid
undocumented.
Her duckling looks for
her, but makes his way without
his missing compass.
Eleven months old
Carlos is taken care of
by her family.
Lost and trying to
avoid the worst of the storm
she can’t make it home.
Suddenly, a judge
decides he’s unwanted by
his struggling mother.
A hovering hawk
steals his small body, talons
digging into feathers.
Accuses her of
neglect as she fights for her
son as best she can.
At last she returns
despairs at the empty nest
looks for him in vain.
But to no avail
in a system designed to
make her lose, she does.
It does not matter
where she looks, she knows her babe
is lost, was taken.
Her son’s adopted
his identity erased
by white kidnappers.
She is left in the
meadow alone, consumed with
grief from Nature’s wrath.
REFERENCE: https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/18/us/missouri-immigrant-child/index.html
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